COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONAle Brewed With Molasses & GingerBlackstrapped Ginger Stock AleOur longtime brewer, Jon Hill, drew the short straw at the Manly Beer Club meeting. His charge: make a beer with two distinctly assertive flavors that must fight it out - yet work together. He opted to brew with raw blackstrap molasses and snap it back with fresh ginger root. Some called him crazy, to others he was quixotic, but to most he was Jon.

Inspired by the photo of the great Molasses Disaster of 1918, this beer would need time, but with patience it would be a good disaster - as indeed it is. This fabulously complicated beer starts you with a ginger nose, rolls you through a pronounced body and finishes with the tar-like sweetness of molasses (not unlike black licorice). This beer can be aged to allow the two profiles to mellow out further if it suits your taste.

Roasty color almost without head. Fragrances of brown sugar and ginger with maple syrup hints.Ginger and molasse attack your taste buds right away but quickly you have nothing left. The oily texture doesn’t hide the lack of bubbles. Also, at end some smokey-carbonisation seem to appears. Fair bitterness. I’m disapointed because it seems at beginning a very good one but my enthusiams fall after the second taste.

Backlog of ratings. Thanks to someone at one of bu11zeye’s tastings. The smell is very spiced, molasses, sweet, sugary, ginger. The look is is brown in color, off white head. The taste is all over the place, molasses, spiced, sweet, and licorice.

Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a very dark brown color with a small foamy tan head that faded and left no lacing. The aroma was ginger powder, faint toasty malts and a touch of vague fruits. The flavor was ginger powder, toasty malts, a tart and chalky presence and just fell off to water. Short watery ginger finish. Thin and watery body. Disappointing.

22 oz bottle. Dark brown with beige froth. Nose is molasses and chocolate, hints of ginger and spearmint. Medium light with a tingle but feels a bit thin and watery. Taste is molasses, not quite sweet, yeast, bitter cola and grass. Lingering ginger buzz. Should be bigger to pull off this combination.

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